Re: xinetd vs php socket server

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Bostjan Skufca <bostjan@a2o.si> wrote: > Xinetd will definitely be faster way than coding your daemon in PHP. > In this case: > You have to consider many other things as well: > - do your worker processes run under various UIDs (do they do > setuid/setgid)? > no > - do your workers die after processing each request/client or do they > process multiple connections? > die after each request > - do you need inter-worker communication? > no > - resource locking issues, etc? > perhaps some, but i think this could be handled via a select to the database prior to a write > What is your goal, the function of your daemon/socket server? > basically to process an incoming payload from a client, parse and store the results. not sure why the requirements are to accept the payload over non-http, but that is out of my control. i guess you can see where im going with this, basically, why reinvent the wheel w/ the daemon code when xinetd is available. i suppose those php libraries you mentioned are an argument against that, but then there is the speed benefit of xinetd. i guess it just comes down to a battle of tradeoffs. -nathan